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Ezekiel - ch 22 v 1 - 20
- And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
- And you, son of man, will you be a judge, will you be a judge of the town of blood? then make clear to her all her disgusting ways.
- And you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: A town causing blood to be drained out in her streets so that her time may come, and making images in her to make her unclean!
- You are responsible for the blood drained out by you, and you are unclean through the images which you have made; and you have made your day come near, and the time of your judging has come; for this cause I have made you a name of shame to the nations and a cause of laughing to all countries.
- Those who are near and those who are far from you will make sport of you; your name is unclean, you are full of sounds of fear.
- See, the rulers of Israel, every one in his family, have been causing death in you.
- In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.
- You have made little of my holy things, and have made my Sabbaths unclean.
- In you there are men who say evil of others, causing death; in you they have taken the flesh with the blood for food; in your streets they have put evil designs into effect.
- In you they have let the shame of their fathers be seen; in you they have done wrong to a woman at the time when she was unclean.
- And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.
- In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.
- See, then, I have made my hands come together in wrath against your taking of goods by force and against the blood which has been flowing in you.
- Will your heart be high or your hands strong in the days when I take you in hand? I the Lord have said it and will do it.
- And I will send you in flight among the nations and wandering among the countries; and I will completely take away out of you everything which is unclean.
- And you will be made low before the eyes of the nations; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord.
- And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
- Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste.
- For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have all become waste metal, see, I will get you together inside Jerusalem.
- As they put silver and brass and iron and lead and tin together inside the oven, heating up the fire on it to make it soft; so will I get you together in my wrath and in my passion, and, heating the fire with my breath, will make you soft.
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